quote: But will the technology spur a consumer spending spree like digital and high-definition TV did before it? Or will 3-D end up being the next big flop?
More likely, it will spur more headaches than anything else.
Some other threads have touched on 3-D movies and how they should have gone out of style long before they came into it, but I just wanted to do a little groaning nonetheless.
Posted by Lisa (Member # 8384) on :
I've only seen really good 3D once. That was at Disney World, about a year ago. They used polarizing glasses, of course, and not the red/blue ones, and the 3D experience was so real that I honestly felt like I could reach out and touch things. Just stunning.
If they could get that working on TV, it might be interesting. But in all honesty, it's a bit unnecessary. Unless you can go around things and look from other perspectives, 3D is really just a gimmick.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
3D seems to flop every once in a while. It's its thing. 3D glasses and virtual game boy anyone?
Posted by Teshi (Member # 5024) on :
Chuck's most recent episode was 3-D in the requires-glasses sense. For me, who did not have glasses, it merely meant the colours were off and things in the far background and foreground were heavily tinged with red and/or blue.
I found it gimmicky. I will only like 3-D if it stops deliberately throwing things at the screen just to prove that it can.
There used to be this 3-D IMAX movie at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. It was a lovely film about a girl on a futuristic space station, and although things did get thrown at the screen, it was very tasteful. The 3-Dness became background rather than gimmicky.
If anyone can tell me the name of this movie-- the girl lived on a wheel-shaped spoked station with her parents. She had dark hair. She liked the greenhouse area of the station. There were asteroids and her father was in danger from them or something associated with them-- I will be very much obliged.
Posted by Dobbie (Member # 3881) on :
I saw Chuck with the glasses. I found the whole thing really annoying.
The 3D effects were fun to watch, though.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
I don't have a problem with 3D tv. If it's anything like the new 'Real-D' 3D technology coming more and more into movie theaters, I can't see what the objection would be. The new digital 3D? The kind Lisa mentioned? Is so beautiful, I would love it if every movie made from now on was in that format.
Skip the gimmicks. Don't have stuff flying out of the screen at the audience and all that... That pulls you out of the flow and distracts you from the story. Just make the movies the same way you'd make them anyway, but in Real-D.